Interesting reading all of this...
In Enfield, we have a variety of all of the above. Our local post office for example is cash and card at the main counter, but the shop (stationery/cards/boxes etc) has cash only, as the charges are too much for small businesses (this is technically a separate business to the main post office). BUT despite this, so many people now are coming with card payments, and despite the cash machine outside dispensing fivers, sometimes people end up just paying at the main counter. Its adapting to a changing environment, whereby in all fairness, cash is still popular, but card is arguably more so.
There is evidently changing consumer behaviour in two places I'm familiar with in but not so much when I've strayed outside of London to more rural places. I guess we'll see what the next ten years bring. We're due to have new £20 notes in next year anyway in the same style as the £5 and £10 notes.
In Enfield, we have a variety of all of the above. Our local post office for example is cash and card at the main counter, but the shop (stationery/cards/boxes etc) has cash only, as the charges are too much for small businesses (this is technically a separate business to the main post office). BUT despite this, so many people now are coming with card payments, and despite the cash machine outside dispensing fivers, sometimes people end up just paying at the main counter. Its adapting to a changing environment, whereby in all fairness, cash is still popular, but card is arguably more so.
I was surprised to find this myself when I was looking at a trip to Stockholm earlier this year, but it seems to work well. I've definitely noticed a lot of businesses that are not accepting cash anymore (although not so much in Enfield yet). For example, in Parsons Green, the little coffee shop next to the station is cashless, as is Megan's, a nice little restaurant, and both the Co-Op and Waitrose accept cash only at the till and not at the self checkouts, which many people use.Is it?
Try going to Sweden, where most places only accept card.
There is evidently changing consumer behaviour in two places I'm familiar with in but not so much when I've strayed outside of London to more rural places. I guess we'll see what the next ten years bring. We're due to have new £20 notes in next year anyway in the same style as the £5 and £10 notes.